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Amicus' TALES FROM THE CRYPT & VAULT OF HORROR by Aaron Armstrong & Peter Moran

We're back to tell you all the movies we've watched so far this month. Spoiler: this entire endeavor has gotten away from us, and our loved ones are scared and lonely.

Our anthology month covers 1995's Tales from the Hood, one of the best anthology horrors ever, and one of the best horror movies from the 90s, period. We both have a lot of affection for this movie, but if you want to hear it covered by "not two white guys" we'd recommend listening to this: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tales-from-the-hood/id1485449824?i=1000486561173

Anthology Horror month is here for Spooktober! We open with George A. Romero's CREEPSHOW, and next week we've got Rusty Cundieff's TALES FROM THE HOOD. After that, we've got the two Amicus adaptations of EC comics, TALES FROM THE CRYPT/VAULT OF HORROR. We wrap up the month with our massive VHS ep where we rank every segment from the V/H/S films... including V/H/S 99!

It's our most holy time of the year, where we get ourselves psyched up to ruin our relationships with our family and friends by watching nothing but new-to-us horror movies for the month. We're joined by Spooky friend of the show, Ryan Boland, and we talk about our prep lists: https://letterboxd.com/amaguirea/list/2022-spooktober-dont-go-spookin-my-bones/ https://letterboxd.com/petergmoran/list/spooktober-2022-rip-spookwagons-keep-on-spookin/ https://letterboxd.com/ryjobo/list/spooktober-2022-dumb-pun-pending/

Our Summer of Kaiju closes with one of the best Godzilla films there ever was, SHIN GODZILLA.

We're approaching the end of our Size Matters double month, but not before we talk about the three Monsterverse movies featuring our big chonky boy: Godzilla (2014), Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla Vs Kong. We're not going too deep into any of these, but we are pretty positive on this take 2 version of an American Godzilla. Next week, we say goodbye to Godzilla with 2016's Shin Godzilla.

Guillermo Del Toro's PACIFIC RIM was an attempt to make peace between big budget spectacle Hollywood filmmaking, obsessed with grimdark pessmistic films, and its more optimistic, adventurous past. New tech, old soul.

Our looks through the Godzilla movies arrives at the Millennium series and Godzilla: Final Wars! This is a love letter to the Showa era featuring a lot of monsters and a lot of green screen. Like a lot of the millennium series, it's somewhat of a mixed bag, but still a lot of fun (Because Godzilla is in it).

HEISEI era comes to a close.

Our look at the Godzilla series comes to the Heisei era with the first two entries, The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla Vs. Biollante. The Return of Godzilla is a reboot that pretends only the 1954 original exists, and it's followed by one of the best in the entire canon, where Godzilla fights the Aubrey II (basically).

We take a pit stop in our Godzilla Month, so cover another 60s era Japanese, Kaiju movie, The X from Outer Space. What if instead of a giant mutated dinosaur, Japan was attacked by a chicken? Well, X going to give it you, baby. We're joined by Brandon Ledet of the Swampflix podcast who like likes this movie.

We're wrapping up our Size Matters Month dip into the Showa series with a fun, good entry, Godzilla Vs Gigan, and one of the best of any era, Terror of Mechagodzilla. Stay tuned next week for our first Kaiju detour, with The X From Outer Space

For our Summer of Kaiji aka SIZE DOES MATTER SUMMER, we are strolling into the Showa era with primal fury with King Kong vs Godzilla and Invasion of the Astro-Monster.

After a week off, our Summer of Godzilla begins with the 1954 original masterpiece, Godzilla! We also discuss the American edit, King of the Monsters, and if that's the only version you've seen, you are missing out. Tune in to find out why!

Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL is both a movie about a rebellion AND a symbol of rebellion, with a massive behind-the-scenes (and onto the newspapers) battle over its release in the states.

We open the trunk on Alex Cox's 1984 punk classic, Repo Man! It may be Fuck Ronald Reagan Month, but this movie has a long list of people who need to fuck right off. And it's one of the best movies of a great decade!

John Carpenter's THEY LIVE is, to some, the ultimate FUCK RONALD REAGAN movie of the 80s. We wouldn't have had this month without it. Just Aaron and Pete on this one.

Our Fuck Ronald Reagan kicks off 1987's Robocop. Part Man, Part Machine. All Great Podcast Episode!

WLTW Presents... START TREK! This week's episode is exclusively on Star Trek: Insurrection, a serious low-point in the series despite some fun character moments and F. Murray Abraham as the villain.